The last dip into the French repertoire has proved extremely
fortunate. MM. Anicet Bourgeois and Adrien Decourcelle having brought out at the Vaudeville an excellent little comedy of the sentimental kind, entitled .La Joie de la liaison, and Mademoiselle Luther having made a consider- able sensation in the principal part, it has been deemed advisable to pro- duce an English version of the piece at the Haymarket, with Miss _Blanche Fane in the niche occupied at Paris by the fascinating French actress. The whole plot is devised for the sake of bringing forward this one character,—a playful girl of sixteen, who devotes her energies to the reconciliation of a separated father and mother, and succeeds in the at- tempt. Although the situation is pathetic, there is no pathos in the young lady herself; who carries her point by almost comical means, now fibbing unscrupulously, now coaxing with the certain triumph of a spoiled child, now stamping like a little termagant. All this is admirably done by Miss Blanche Fane ; who combines spirit with delicacy, and may be pronounced a most valuable addition to the modern stage. The piece is called The Little Treasure.
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